Etude Elementary

Etude Elementary, an intimate K-5 school in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Sheboygan Area School District, educates 190 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 41% smaller than the state mean of about 323.

Sheboygan Area School District runs 26 schools in total, collectively educating 9,285 students. Etude Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Etude Elementary logs that the largest single group is White, at 76% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 12% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 3% Asian.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Etude Elementary has 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. Around 52% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Etude Elementary sits in the top 10% of Wisconsin schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 46.0%; actual is 63.9%, +17.9 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Sheboygan County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $73,094 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Etude Elementary is one of 52 public schools in Sheboygan County (combined enrollment of about 17,340 students).

Nearest neighbor: Pigeon River Elementary, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Etude Elementary. On composite proficiency, Etude Elementary comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 46.4%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting. Etude Elementary operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 3%: 185 students in 2018 compared to 190 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 81% to 76%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 today.

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